Tag: climate change
Big Oil’s new strategy: Profit today, fight again tomorrow
Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable.
Kamala vs. Mitt: Two different viewpoints of family planning prefigure different...
Forget their policies for a moment, and consider how two politicians’ lives foreshadow our ecological future.
New report: Cost of renewable energies may be less than previously...
A new report found that predicted costs for renewables have likely been overestimated "falling short of early pricing model predictions again and again."
Why the oil industry’s pivot to carbon capture and storage—while it...
The fossil fuel industry is pushing for the U.S. government to support methods to capture its climate pollution. But what are their consequences?
New study confirms Arctic Ocean has been warming decades longer than...
Published in Science Advances, scientists determined that "Atlantification," which is "the recent expansion of Atlantic waters in the Arctic Ocean," was taking place several decades before the recording.
Corals spawning gives scientists hope for ‘vulnerable ecosystem’
The spawning, which was seen from recorded videos off the coast of Cairns, Queensland, "gives the scientists who observed it hope for the vulnerable ecosystem."
The big industry that COP26 failed to tackle
Our broken and inhumane food system is a huge source of emissions, so why isn’t it a major part of the climate solution?
Sociology can help the climate crisis
Climate change is caused by people acting in groups, after all, and sociology is the study of people acting in groups.
More US residents than ever before understand climate crisis is real...
There is a growing awareness that the extreme weather events of recent years are caused by the climate crisis, with an all-time high of 70 percent of people believing that global warming is impacting U.S. weather right now.
The ocean is essential to tackling climate change. So why has...
How can oceans help us tackle the climate crisis? And what progress has been made in international negotiations?
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Study finds AI data centers could consume as much water as basic needs of...
The study highlighted that evaluating AI solely by carbon emissions overlooks devastating localized impacts on water and land systems.
10 reasons to resist AI
To counter Big Tech’s narrative of AI inevitability, movements are beginning to resist on many fronts where this dangerous tech is being deployed.
Deviant Donald, self-destructive dictator
As explosive prices erase tax relief,/ Must one be rich to afford ground beef?
An Indian billionaire was targeted by Trump. Then he poured money into a startup...
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration.
Children are dying as sanctions tighten and fears of military escalation grow in Cuba
UN human rights chief says U.S. restrictions are driving medicine shortages, food insecurity, and prolonged blackouts while lawmakers warn of a possible new conflict in the Caribbean.